Hello,
I’m creating some functions with Python using PyMongo, create database and create collection. I’ve read the docs and it says that in order to databases to be created (committed) a document must be written.
Is there a way to only create a database without having collections and documents? Or is there a way to handle this kind of situation?
Short answer no… MongoDB doesn’t provide any command to create “database”
if you drop all collections in a database, you delete the database too.
you may try yourself;
List all databases.
show dbs
switch the database you want to create (non-exists database name will work)
use new_database;
Insert an empty document into the collection you want to create (again, non-exists collection name will work)
db.new_collection.insertOne({});
drop the collection, you just created and inserted a document.
db.new_collection.drop();
List all databases, again.
show dbs
Why do you want/need to create an empty database? It doesn’t feel very MongoDB-ish…